[New-Poetry] Re: Aesthetic Diversity in Poetry Today

[Bob Grumman]

David Graham wrote:
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> On Sep 5, 2007, at 7:59 PM, Bob Grumman wrote:
>> But only dolts claim that only the new is good.
Didn't realize I had to spell everything out on this beaten-to-death 
topic, but I guess I do. 

1. Only dolts NOW claim that only the new is good (but they may be dolts 
only while making such a claim)

2. Of course, earlier poets went overboard at times, though I'm not sure 
Pound, who certainly never turned his back on tradition, ever said ONLY 
the new is good.  He believed poets should not stick to the tried and 
true, that's all.

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> See Pound ("make it new," etc.).  The whole project of modernism is 
> based on a dramatic rupture with tradition, and it's unclear to me 
> that postmodernism has altered that basic oppositional equation.  
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> As for writing a poem that *entirely* repeats the past, good luck with 
> that.
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Obviously I meant a poem that is entirely out of some tradition that's 
been around for decades, and entirely lacks anything previous previous 
poetry did not have.  In other words, the  poetry of every Pulitzer 
Prize poet we've had for the past twenty years or more.

--Bob G.
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